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murder for hire. an assassination plot prevented on u.s. soil. >> the target and how the seem was foiled. hello everyone. people are talking about tonight. >> a threat of bombs and massive injuries aimed at one in washington. how it was uncovered. >> reporter: the obama administration is accusing the iranian government of planning

to assassinate the saudi ambassador to the u.s. >> his conspiracy was conceived and was directed from iran. it constitutes a flagrant violation of u.s. and national law. >> reporter: iranian agents -- at his favorite restaurant in washington. >> these individuals have no regard for their intended victim, no regard for innocent citizens who might have been hurt or killed in this attempted assassination. >> reporter: federal agents arrested 56-year-old at jfk airport on september 29. they say he has confessed and identified iranian officials. the other suspect is member of iran's special operations unit and is still at large in iran. they say he hired a hit man he believed worked for a mexican drug cartel, the men were

charged here inside this federal courthouse on inspiring to kill the diplomat even though one of them is not in u.s. country. secretary of state the leverage for other country to apply sanctions. >> this kind of action, which violates international norm, must be ended. >> iran denied the allegation. in new york brown, wjz eyewitness news. >> justice department officials say the suspect was planning to pay $1.5 million for for the assassination, he's being held without bail. he agonizes over his new role fight being the rebels. >> it's something that i struggle with, and i i hope i don't have -- maybe that's it, i don't know. >> matthew van dyk is caught up in the battle. he started fighting after

escaping after prison. he told his family he plans to stay in libya until he finds three missing friends. quiet neighborhood is shaken by a drive by shooting. wjz is live talking with neighbors who are on edge tonight. >> reporter: this quiet community doesn't see police action that's why so many people are scared that a gun -- was fired here early sunday morning. it's the bullet that pierced through the front door of dave's woodbury home. >> it was about five feet from my head and it laid about 8 feet from my wife when it finally came to rest. >> reporter: he's a writer and his wife a student say they don't know why anyone would shoot up their home. >> it's very clear someone was looking for someone else. >> reporter: the shooting has rocked the quiet community. they hid in their basement and

waited for police to arrive but the wait was longer than expected. gill moore called 911 at 1:00, at 1:21 he called again. the delayed response has neighbors worried. >> that's unbelievable. >> reporter: wjz went to city police to ask what took so long. >> it's incredible alarming for an incident like that to take place. we have to battle that where people may be in danger. >> reporter: police department has launched an internal investigation to find out why there was a delay in response time. he says he's pleased with the police investigation into that dallied response, he hopes it helps somebody else in the future. live in woodbury, wjz eyewitness news. so far police haven't made any arrest in the shooting. he says he wants the community to be aware of what happened. hazmat scare tonight,

workers were getting rid of medical waste when they found some radioactive material. it touched one of the worker's clothes. crews checked out all the other workers, they are found. lawyers filed an appeal asking for his immediate release, either that or they want him let out pending trial. he's suspected in the disappearance and presumed death of his traveling companion robin garner, she's from frederick maryland. her body has not been found. he insists she was swept to see while she was snorkel, prosecutors said there are determined to keep him in jail. caught in a love triangle wjz uncovers new information about wild blatche attack. takes us insood the courtroom as the suspect faces a judge. >> reporter: 33-year-old theresa jefferson is accused of

throwing blatche and pine sol on her exboyfriend's fiance in a wal-mart. she and 18 other shoppers were taken to area hospitals for treatment. now a judge orders jefferson's bail will stand at $350,000. >> wee ear asking for the bail that would assure -- insure the safety of our victims. >> reporter: documents obtained by wjz say the victim had filed a restraining order against jefferson. saturday the wal-mart happened before that restraining order could be served. the boyfriend in the center of this bizarre love triangle appears for the bail hearing as for his father, but in support of the defendants, not his son. >> i'm not going to spend my time -- defend my son, he wrong. he wrong, he wrong. what i'm going to defend him for if he's wrong. >> when you consider that the family of the alleged victim

were here to indicate that their son and the other alleged victim have engaged in a pattern of harassment. >> parnell who has a 6-year-old son with his exgirlfriend is on probation for assaulting 2 months ago. parnell refused to talk with us on camera. a trial date has not been set. at the baltimore county detention center, wjz eyewitness news. simpson is charged with assault, obstruction of property and harassment. six people arrested for taking their protest to the heart of the government. the protesters tried to un-- inside the u.s. senate office building. police took the banner and arrested the protesters. a battle of words in new hampshire tonight as republican

presidential hopefuls debate. mick romney's candidacy got an important endorsement today from. >> chris: city. all the candidates went after president obama. and republicans can claim a victory, they voted to kill obama's $447 billion jobs plan and it appears they have enough votes to make it stick. ge customers signed off about the company's response. they share their horror story where is the public service commission. they lost power after irene, some for longer than a week. the commission will decide he did a job restoring power after the storm. racing fans get revved up, the baltimore grand prix is coming back to time. media time, some report the race will return next labor day weekend. the official announcement is expected friday, more than 100,000 fans packed downtown baltimore to see the indy cars race through city streets

during this year's inaugural race. olympic super star michael phelps makes a big splash with his latest project. how you can now compete against phelps. >> he was released today. all you need bathing suit and you're competing again the fastest swimmer in the world. he's set records. he's olympic gold medalist. now he's competing in the world of video games. >> being able to come up with this game interactive game. >> it's called pushed the limit. interactive experience that let's players go head to head with baltimore's womenner. >> i think it's great. michael phelps he is somebody that kids are going to look up to. to see somebody from the baltimore area to have some success and do so well to have a video game, that's amazing. >> it's only available on x

box. >> reporter: certainly too new to have any significant reviews. >> i think it will be like a cool game, though. it's different. i mean, for him, yeah,. >> this game stop didn't have his game in stop. they say it's unclear when each store will get the game. he thought to market himself in unchartered waters, it adds to lucrative endorsement portfolio. >> michael pushed for it to go in retails for 494 -- $49.99. >> the game must be played with the x box kinect accessory. >> and you get that speed doe endorsement coming out soon. >> bob is endorsing speed doe. >> speed doe is endorsing bob, that's the way it goes.

>> i'm looking for pictures. >> still aheaden emotional day in the courtroom. shocking piece of evidence that cost some of michael jackson's fans. >> gas station shoot out. see what happens next. >> it's horrible for us. it can't be easy for them. a family shaken by their daughter's murder. tonight they're speaking out for the first time. coming up the one thing they want to say to the suspected killer. rain headed for the region. i'll have the complete forecast coming up next. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

56 degrees and cloudy in central maryland right now. the complete forecast is coming up. a wild shoot out caught on video inside the houston gas station. you can see two men armed with guns storm into the store hop over the counter and shoot the clerk into the leg. the clerk takes coffer, grabs the gun and fires back. police one of the alleged robbers he had been shot twice in the arm. the second suspect is still on the loose. new testimony in the case against michael jackson's personal physician, the core minor who performed the autopsy, he claims jackson's death was a homicide despite what the defense said.

they argue the king of pop gave himself a fatal dose of propofol while his client was using the past room. it's more likely that he miscalculated. there was an emotional moment in court today when prosecutors showed a picture of jackson's -- jackson in court. >> a young woman murdered, she managed, her coworker is charged and goes on trial in less than 2 weeks. tonight for the first time we're hearing from the victim's family family. >> david and fill liss say from an early age their daughters life was filled with laughter and adventure. she loved dance and outdoors. she led an extraordinary life and had a future as bright as her smile. until march 11 when the murray family's world would unravel in the world of late night phone

call chief executive officer. >> there was a death and that one had been taken to the hospital. within 10 minutes he called us back to tell us that -- was the one that they had pronounced dead. >> within days another shocky development. >> that they had made an arrest. and my immediate reaction was, thank god. then when he said who it was, it was incomprehensible. >> it was baffling. >> stunning. >> under arrest, coworker brittany norwood who police lured gina back to the store after closing time, homicide detectives were shaken. the murder believed to be over a bag of clothing that norwood may have been trying to steal. >> why would you murder someone

over clothes. >> if she needed it so badly for whatever. >> reporter: she would have bought it for her. she would have given it to her. she would have paid for it herself. >> the murrays are now preparing for the murder trial and bracing themselves for the likelihood that they will come face to face with brittany norwood and her parents. >> it's horrible for us, it can't be easy for them. >> her parents say she never spoke of a problem employee only of how she loved working at the store as ameninger. wjz eyewitness news. >> brittany norwood's murder trial is scheduled to begin october 24th. a baseball fan makes it progress, he left the hospital today for a rehab center, still suffered brain damage when he was attacked on opening day outside dodger's stadium. he still has a long way to go, but he is talking and moving his limbs.

two men were arrested in the beating. a real live super hero finds himself on the wrong side of the law. he arrested a man who moonlights as a super hero after he reportedly sprayed a group of people with pepper spray. he claims he was trying to break up with a fight. he spent a few hours in jail, but according to his facebook page, jones is back on the troll tonight and easy to spot in the crowd. >> he lives in a video store. or his home looks like a video store. >> great changes. he's got a nice -- >> okay. take a look at radar. we had some rain in the region, just sprinkles around here. it's been west of us, as you can see west virginia, ohio, kentucky, alaska, it's moving generally from the south to north down in virginia, doesn't look like the heaviest will come to our region, we'll see rain over night and during the day tomorrow, so a little batches of eastern shore, but

the bulk of it, way out to the west of us, that's moving up towards pittsburgh, columbus, a little bit of rain out in the frederick area. we've seen some sprinkles so far that's about it, southern virginia that's coming up 95, look for rain over night and again tomorrow. take a look at temperatures it hasn't dropped very much. 66 east winds at 10. the barometer has been falling. 67 in ocean city and d.c. right now locally, mid-60s. so it's a mild night. normal lows in the 40s, so these are pretty warm temperatures, east winds continue to bring moisture north atlantic ocean and we will see rain exactly how much is hard to pinpoint. i do think some areas west of us can easily see over an inch, locally maybe half inch to inch possibly, some areas maybe under achieve, some a little bit more. low pressure that was down in the south, kind of weak now,

but it's still got that moisture with it and it's moving from south to north. the bulk of it as you can see over west virginia kentucky that's moving to the west. some of this is going to swing by over the next 24 to 48 hours in addition there's a front out to the west, another area of low pressure behind it. with that we'll have additional chance of scattered showers thursday and maybe even on friday before finally clears out and dries out just in time for the weekend. so that's good news. east wind 15 to 20, on the bay tomorrow, so tonight some rain, periods of rain developing. 58 by morning. so when you drive mt. morning, probably a little rain. during the day tomorrow breezy, cooler mid-60s. still a chance of few showers yet on thursday, maybe even thundershower as it warms up to 74. 69 friday, maybe some morning showers, clearly late. a nice weekend, 67 and 70, a lot of sunshine this saturday and sunday, denise.

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coming back. >> intriguing trade. derrick mason is coming back to baltimore, not the play for the raving but to play against them for the second game in a row. tonight he was traded from the jets to the houston texans. mason was with the jets 9 days ago, caught two passing and new york lost. he was benched and today traded to houston. texans needed a saver after andre johnson got hurt. mason played five games with new york, but with the ravens for six seasons. the reigns are coming off a --

ravens are coming off a biweek. now, the ravens' defense is known for its fierce aggressiveness and domination. well the offense would like to use those characteristics to define itself. >> energy is a lot of things. i think first hard foremost we're going -- first and foremost we're going to attack beam. you attack people in pass protection, you attack people by putting everybody out. you've got to be able to do everything so that you don't become one dimensional and they can't take away some things and leave you with nothing. >> the ravens will unleash their attack on the houston team that now has derrick mason. see it right here, coverage will come your way sunday at 4:00. a change in plans to honor former basketball coach gary williams on january 25th, the university of maryland will name the comcast center in -- the original plan was to hold

the ceremony in december. january 25th, nationally televised game more fitting night. he coached there for 22 seasons, one of the -- won the most games in school's history. >> game 3, tigers rangers after the rangers won the first two in texas. tie game, 5th inning, lewis pitching to miguel, sends it down to right field. 2 f- 2-1 detroit. the rangers need relief who was traded to texas this year, he surrendered a single to austin jackson. here comes another run. tigers go on to win 5-2. texas leads the series two games to one. game 4 in detroit in the afternoon. afternoon. >> thank you, mark [ male announcer ] at the safeway pharmacy you can get a flu shot from an experienced professional. we've given over 5 million flu shots over the last 10 years. [ male announcer ] hey, but who's counting?

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